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A New Hope (& Change)
(With apologies to George Lucas and Star Wars episode 4.) The President’s numerous, and recent, trips to Virginia and New Jersey notwithstanding, Republicans were elected governors of those states. The thrill (up the leg) is gone one year...
That Nutty United Nations
A couple of recent articles demonstrate just how off-track this august body has become. First, an opinion article from USA Today that speaks out against UN efforts to criminalize the criticism of religion. This is as clear-cut a free speech iss...
You Go, Girl!
Carrie Prejean, who was essentially fired as Miss California after a politically incorrect answer to a Miss USA pageant question, insists she did not break the conditions of her contract, and is going to court to prove it. Miss Prejean was fired from...
Shire Network News #166 - Bruce Bawer
Shire Network News #166 has been released. The feature interview is with Bruce Bawer, the Oslo-based US author of "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within" and Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom a...
Taxation Without Representation, Union-Style
Another interesting story that came out about California’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage, and the effort to make public the names of donors who supported it, was this article from NPR showing how the Teacher’s Union and its own ...
Gay-Bashing (from the Left)
Can you be a Republican and a homosexual? Bruce Carroll and Dan Blatt, who contribute to the blog GayPatriot, would say, "Yes", and I would agree. Now, I believe that homosexual acts are a sin, I believe the Bible says this, and w...
Tom Hanks Apologizes
Hanks did he right thing and apologized for calling Mormon supporters of California Proposition 8 "un-American". "Last week, I labeled members of the Mormon church who supported California’s Proposition 8 as ‘un-America...
Inconvenient Truth About Prop 8 Opposition
Tom Hanks called the Mormons "un-American" for opposing California’s Proposition 8 which "constitutionalized" the definition of marriage being one man and one woman. So now, to the Left, changing the state Constitution via...
The Rick Warren Kerfuffle and The "Tolerant" Left
President-elect Obama has invited Saddleback pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation (i.e. opening prayer) at the inauguration. While Obama and Warren disagree on some issues, Obama says he wants to "create an atmosphere where we can disa...
Voting With Their Feet
Parishioners in the Episcopal Church USA are bailing out. More than 60% of dioceses in the Episcopal Church USA suffered double digit decline in Average Sunday Attendance from 1997 to 2007 with predictions that the figures will only escalate in 2008 ...
Post-Vacation Catch-up Links
During my Thanksgiving vacation, I didn’t do any blogging but I did still read the news. I’ll have long posts about some of the items later on, but just wanted to do a quick hit of some bits I found interesting: * Tying up some loos...
Same-Sex Marriage Goes 0-3 on Election Day
California, Florida (two blue states) and Arizona voters rejected same-sex marriage in their states. As Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council notes, this signals that the electorate is still generally socially conservative, and that if ...
